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Saturday, 13 March 2010

Beat the clock


The 70's pop band Sparks once sang - "You gotta beat the clock, beat the clock", so here's a challenging time waster that invites you to beat this clock.


RULE:
Draw two straight lines on the clock face so that the sums of the numbers in each part are equal.

HINTS: Scroll down this post to get hints and then the answer.




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HINT#1:
2 lines across a clock face will give 3 sections, whilst 2 crossed lines will give 4 sections.

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HINT#2:
Add up all the numbers on the clock face and consider some divisions of that number.
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ANSWER:
2 parallell lines divide the face into 3 sections, 78/3 = 26 so each line must bound a count of 26.

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